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Very interesting. Another failure mode with single sensor, overacting computer and similar Boing behavior. In a way the 2009 crash and the regulator and Boing b
by heisenbit 7y ago
Very interesting. Another failure mode with single sensor, overacting computer and similar Boing behavior. In a way the 2009 crash and the regulator and Boing behavior laid the foundation for the Max crashes. It may be a good idea to look at any other crashes the last decade where ‚pilot error‘ was the prime reason.
- stefan_ 7y agoIn particular, another failure where systems used random sensors. If you have critical system A using sensor A and critical system B using sensor B exclusively, great, you have now doubled the chance that a sensor failure will impact a critical system. It was even more idiotic with the MCAS system that would apparently pick a random sensor on every flight and then use that exclusively, which is of course strictly worse than just having one sensor to begin with.